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Name: NORTH STAR
Type: Destroyer
Keel:
Launched: 09/11/1916
Completed: 1917
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 856
Dimensions: 994 - 1042disp, 265.0 x 26.5 x 8.8(draft)ft
Engines: Steam turbines, 25000shp
Engines by:
Propulsion: 3 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 3 x 1 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
1917 British Royal Navy
23/04/1918 Sank
Comments: Member of the Admiralty M Class of destroyers
23/04/1918: Sunk by shore batteries at Zeebrugge